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Are You Troubled by Someone's Drinking?
Millions of people are affected by the excessive drinking of someone close. The following questions, from Al-Anon Family Groups, are designed to help you decide whether or not you need Al-Anon.

Addiction Treatment Should Include Family Therapy
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has unveiled the first practical guide for substance abuse treatment counselors to incorporate family therapy techniques into substance abuse treatment.

How Can I Get Him to Stop?
By the time family members ask this question, the drinker has usually crossed over from occasional alcohol abuse to actual alcohol dependence.

Why Do I Need Help? He's the Alcoholic!
The disease of alcoholism affects everyone in the family whether they realize it or not.

Are You Enabling an Alcoholic or Addict?
The following questions are designed to help you decide whether or not your actions and reactions to the alcoholic might be enabling.

One Family's Story
This unfortunately is a true story about how many lives one alcoholic can affect, and how alcoholism can spiral into a full-fledged family disease.

Games Alcoholic Families Play
As the saying goes, you are not the cause of someone else's drinking problem, you cannot cure it and you can't control it. But there are ways that you may be contributing to the problem.

The Many Facets of Enabling
What is the best way to react to the situation? How do you react when the alcoholic has pulled another one of his stunts?

Al-Anon Topics for Beginners
Some of the topics that seem to be of most interest to those who are newcomers to Al-Anon Family Groups, or who want to learn more about the program.